HomeMy WebLinkAboutCouncil Information Memorandum 09-07-2023 CITY OF PLYMOUTH
COUNCIL INFO MEMO
September 7, 2023
EVENTS / MEETINGS
Environmental Quality Committee Agenda for September 13 ................................. Page 2
Parks and Recreation Advisory Commission Agenda for September 14 ....................... Page 3
Official City Meeting Calendars .................................................................... Page 4
Tentative List of Agenda Items ..................................................................... Page 7
CORRESPONDENCE
Changes in State Law Impact School Resource Officers in Plymouth. ........................ Page 9
REPORTS & OTHER ARTICLES OF INTEREST
$300 Million Plan to Redevelop Plymouth's Prudential Site
to Return to City, Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal ................................. Page 10
Plymouth Med-Tech Startup Urotronic Sold for at Least $255M, Star Tribune ............ Page 12
Plymouth Community Center Holds Sensory-Friendly Sundays, Sun Sailor ................ Page 14
Plymouth Plant Swap Set for Monday, Sept. 11, Sun Sailor ................................. Page 15
Plymouth Seeks Vendors for Nov. 18 Artisan Market, Sun Sailor ............................ Page 16
CITY OF PLYMOUTH
AGENDA
Regular Environmental Quality Committee
September 13, 2023, 7:00 PM
1.CALL TO ORDER
2.PUBLIC FORUM—Individuals may address the Committee about any item not contained on the
regular agenda. A maximum of 15 minutes is allotted for the Forum. If the full 15 minutes are not needed
for the Forum, the Committee will continue with the agenda. The Committee will take no official action on
items discussed at the Forum, with the exception of referral to staff for future report.
3.PRESENTATIONS AND PUBLIC INFORMATION ANNOUNCEMENTS
4.APPROVE AGENDA—Environmental Quality Committee members may add items to the agenda for
discussion purposes or staff direction only. The Committee will not normally take official action on items
added to the agenda.
5.CONSENT AGENDA—These items are considered to be routine and will be enacted by one motion.
There will be no separate discussion of these items unless a Committee member or citizen so requests, in
which event the item will be removed from the Consent Agenda and placed elsewhere on the agenda.
5.1 Adopt proposed Environmental Quality Committee Minutes
August 9 Regular
6.GENERAL BUSINESS
6.1 Discuss Green Step Cities Program and Community Resiliency Plan
6.2 Plymouth Environmental Academy
7.REPORTS AND STAFF RECOMMENDATIONS
8.FUTURE MEETINGS—September 21, 2023 - Plymouth Environmental Academy - Household
Hazardous Materials - 7:00pm - Plymouth Maintenance Facility
October 11, 2023 - Regular Environmental Quality Committee Meeting - 7:00pm - Plymouth City Hall
October 17, 2023 - Plymouth Environmental Academy - Renewable Energy Part 1 - 7:00pm - Plymouth Community
Center
9.ADJOURNMENT
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CITY OF PLYMOUTH
AGENDA
Regular Park and Recreation Advisory Commission
September 14, 2023, 6:00 PM
1.CALL TO ORDER
2.PUBLIC FORUM—Individuals may address the Commission about any item not contained on the
regular agenda. A maximum of 15 minutes is allotted for the Forum. If the full 15 minutes are not needed
for the Forum, the Commission will continue with the agenda. The Commission will take no official action
on items discussed at the Forum, with the exception of referral to staff for future report.
3.PRESENTATIONS AND PUBLIC INFORMATION ANNOUNCEMENTS
4.APPROVE AGENDA—Park and Recreation Advisory Commission members may add items to the
agenda for discussion purposes or staff direction only. The Commission will not normally take official
action on items added to the agenda.
5.CONSENT AGENDA—These items are considered to be routine and will be enacted by one motion.
There will be no separate discussion of these items unless a Commission member or citizen so requests, in
which event the item will be removed from the Consent Agenda and placed elsewhere on the agenda.
5.1 Adopt Proposed Park and Recreation Advisory Commission Minutes
Proposed Minutes.docx
6.GENERAL BUSINESS
6.1 Update Facility Fees and Policies
Parks and Recreation Rates and Fees
PIC Hourly Use Rates and Priority Use Policy
Park Facilities Policy
Cannabinoid, Tobacco and Vaping-Free Policy
7.REPORTS AND STAFF RECOMMENDATIONS
7.1 Recreation Update
7.2 Upcoming Events
8.ADJOURNMENT
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5:00 PM SPECIAL COUNCIL MEETING Plymouth Ice Center 4th sheet of ice discussion/Boards and Commissions Council involvement Medicine Lake Room 7:00 PM REGULAR COUNCIL MEETING Council Chambers
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7:00 PM ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY COMMITTEE MEETING Medicine Lake Room
5:00 PM SPECIAL COUNCIL MEETING Budget discussion Medicine Lake Room
7:00 PM REGULAR COUNCIL MEETING Council Chambers
7:00 PM PLANNING COMMISSION MEETING Council Chambers
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5:00 PM SPECIAL COUNCIL MEETING Council policies review Medicine Lake Room
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7:00 PM PLANNING COMMISSION MEETING Council Chambers
5:00 PM SPECIAL COUNCIL MEETING Budget discussion Medicine Lake Room
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7:00 PM PLANNING COMMISSION MEETING Council Chambers
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THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY
5:00 PM SPECIAL COUNCIL MEETING Budget discussion/ Review Board and Commission applications Medicine Lake Room
7:00 PM REGULAR COUNCIL MEETING Council Chambers
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CITY OFFICES CLOSED
CITY OFFICES CLOSED
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7:00 PM PARK & REC ADVISORY COMMISSION MEETING Council Chambers
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7:00 PM PLANNING COMMISSION MEETING Council Chambers
7:00 PM ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY COMMITTEE MEETING Medicine Lake Room
5:00 PM SPECIAL COUNCIL MEETING
Budget discussion Medicine Lake Room
7:00 PM REGULAR COUNCIL MEETING Council Chambers
7:00 PM PLANNING COMMISSION MEETING Council Chambers
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Tentative Schedule for
City Council Agenda Items
September 26, Special 5:00 p.m., Medicine Lake Room
• Plymouth Ice Center 4th sheet of ice discussion
• Board and Commission involvement with Council discussion
September 26, Regular, 7:00 p.m., Council Chambers
• Presentation from Wayzata Public Schools Superintendent Chace Anderson
• Approve cooperative agreement with Hennepin County for the 2023 Gleason Lake Drive
Improvements Project (ST239001)
• Public hearing for certification of delinquent utility accounts, false alarms, tree removals,
and weed eradication charges
• Public hearing on interim ordinance adopting a moratorium regarding cannabis
• Public Hearing on wine and on-sale 3.2 percent malt liquor license applications of Clay Oven
Plymouth Inc d/b/a Clay Oven, 187 Cheshire Lane North, Suite 100
• Ordinance concerning public use of cannabis and hemp
• Ordinance concerning smoking in city parks
• Approve comprehensive plan amendment request by Scannell Properties LLC to reguide
roughly 75 acres to MXD (mixed use) for property located at 13001 County Road 10 (2023-052)
• Review Plymouth Boulevard design
October 10, Special 5:00 p.m., Medicine Lake Room
• Council policies review – including Special Assessment Policy, Charitable Gambling Funds,
Vendor RFP, etc.
October 10, Regular, 7:00 p.m., Council Chambers
• Adopt ordinance amending City Code section 600 concerning garbage and rubbish disposal
October 24, Special 5:00 p.m., Medicine Lake Room
• 2024/2025 Budget – Enterprise funds with utility study and related CIP
October 24, Regular, 7:00 p.m., Council Chambers
November 14, Special 5:00 p.m., Medicine Lake Room
• 2024/2025 Budget – Internal service funds and related CIP
November 14, Regular, 7:00 p.m., Council Chambers
November 28, Special 5:00 p.m., Medicine Lake Room
• 2024/2025 Budget – final review if needed
• Review Board and Commission applications
November 28, Regular, 7:00 p.m., Council Chambers
• Approve 2024 regular City Council meeting schedule
• Review 2024 legislative priorities
• Approve final closeout for County Road 47 Reconstruction Project - Phase 1 (ST220001)
December 5, Special 5:00 p.m., Medicine Lake Room
• Interview Board and Commission applicants
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December 12, Special 5:00 p.m., Medicine Lake Room
December 12, Regular, 7:00 p.m., Council Chambers
• Swearing in PT/OC Firefighters (City Clerk Jodi Gallup)
• Adopt final levies and budget
• Approve 2024 tobacco licenses
• Approve 2024 refuse hauler licenses
• Approve 2024 target and trap shoot license
• Accept park and recreation donations for 2023
• Adopt polling locations for 2024 elections (if needed)
• Approve final closeout for Hidden Lake and Beacon Heights 2nd Street Reconstruction Project
(ST229001)
• Approve final closeout for 2022 Vicksburg Lane Improvements (ST229005)
• Approve final closeout for 2020 Street Reconstruction Project (ST209001)
• Approve final closeout for Ridgemount Avenue Rehabilitation Project (ST210002)
Date to be determined:
• Closed Session – Labor Negotiations
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City of Plymouth
News Release
For Immediate Release
Aug. 31, 2023
Contact: Erik Fadden
Plymouth Public Safety Director
Plymouth Police Department
763-509-5188
Changes in state law impact school resource officers in Plymouth
Plymouth, Minn. – Due to recent changes in state law, the Plymouth Police Department will suspend
placing school resource officers inside public schools during the coming school year.
The suspension will remain in place until the law is changed. In the meantime, the Plymouth Police
Department will continue to work with the Wayzata and Robbinsdale school districts to provide services
to the schools related to safety and security. During the suspension, school resource officers will be
reassigned to the Patrol Division.
The changes in state law apply to school resource officers, and law enforcement and security personnel
who are acting as agents of the schools. The law does not apply to police officers who are not under a
school contract.
About the Changes in State Law
For more than 30 years, school resource officers (SROs) have been stationed in Plymouth high schools
and middle schools and have often been called upon to immediately respond when an altercation occurs
at a school. Recent changes to Minnesota Statute 121A prohibit or limit an SRO’s ability to physically
intervene, de-escalate situations, separate fighting students, restrain/control fighting students, or hold
aggressors on the floor.
“The way the law is written right now, we are unable to find a viable way for our officers to provide safe
and effective service in the schools,” said Plymouth Public Safety Director Erik Fadden. “The law restricts
school resource officers from effectively responding during incidents, which may leave students, staff,
parents and officers vulnerable to undue harm.”
The changes to state law were included in the Education Omnibus bill passed during the most recent
legislative session and went into effect Aug. 1.
“The ability to physically intervene is necessary to de-escalate situations and protect students and staff,”
added Fadden. “The changes in state law may make these measures illegal, and subject officers and
police departments to criminal and civil liability.”
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Commercial Real Estate
$300 million plan to redevelop Plymouth's
Prudential site to return to city
Scannell Properties and Roers Cos. have a $300 million plan to redevelop the 75-acre Prudential
site in Plymouth.
By Caitlin Anderson – Reporter, Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal Sep 1, 2023
A $300 million plan to redevelop the 75-acre Prudential site in Plymouth will go
before the city’s Planning Commission Sept. 6.
Commissioners are expected to consider a comprehensive plan amendment to
accommodate the redevelopment plan, which is being led by co-developers
Minnetonka-based Roers Cos. and Indianapolis-based Scannell Properties.
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Located on the corner of Interstate 494 and Bass Lake Road, the site is the
corporate campus of Prudential Financial Inc., which is leaving the site for
downtown Minneapolis . The co-developers purchased the site, at 13001 County
Road 10, from Prudential last year for $20 million.
Since announcing their intent to re-develop the area last year, the co-developers
have engaged with the city to discuss how its leaders may envision the future of
the site. That included an informal review by the Plymouth City Council, as well
as workshop in May, when City Council members met with the development team
to outline their desires for the site, including pointing to Edina’s 100-acre mixed
use site Centennial Lakes for inspiration.
Developer plans initially submitted to the city included five residential buildings
with around 1,000 units and surrounding a large pond in the center of the site, a
grocery store, a cluster of retail shops, restaurants and a business park, the
Business Journal previously reported.
In July, the City Council adopted an Alternative Urban Areawide Review (AUAR),
which is a planning tool allowing a city to examine different development
scenarios in how they might affect their community’s environment before they
are built. The AUAR offers a mitigation plan for any environmental concerns,
which must be incorporated into future plans, city documents say.
Now, the development team is returning to the city to request a comprehensive
plan amendment, allowing them to pursue a mixed use guidance, instead of the
site’s current guidance of commercial office, according to city documents.
A sketch plan accompanying the latest documents largely aligns with the initial
site plan submitted to the city regarding the types and locations of the different
uses. But the latest sketch plan specifically calls out certain areas, like an spot for
waterfront restaurant and retail uses as well as a preserved knoll area with trees.
Since the initial plan, the development team has put a greater emphasis on
connections between the public and private uses as well as incorporating a plaza
element and some form of a parking ramp, Andy Bollig, development partner at
Roers, told the Business Journal.
An early 2024 groundbreaking is expected, he said.
If at a later City Council meeting the amendment is approved, the development
team will have to return for additional approvals, like a preliminary plat and
rezoning, city documents say. Plymouth's community and economic development
department staff are recommending approval of the request.
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BUSINESS 600302457
Plymouth med-tech
startup Urotronic sold
for at least $255M
The deal for Urotronic could eventually be worth $600
million, with milestone payments.
By Burl Gilyard Star Tribune SEPTEMBER 6, 2023 — 11:51AM
UROTRONIC
Dave Perry, CEO of Urotronic.
Urotronic Inc., a medical device startup in Plymouth, has been sold in a deal that could be worth
as much as $600 million.
New Hampshire-based Laborie Medical Technologies will make an upfront cash payment of
$255 million to secure the deal. Milestone payments, based on Urotronic meeting financial
targets, could add up to an additional $345 million to the transaction.
Urotronic's breakthrough product is Optilume, a drug-coated balloon that offers a minimally
invasive treatment option for men suffering from urinary tract conditions.
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Optilume was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in December 2021. In June
the FDA approved the Optilume BPH catheter system to treat enlarged prostate.
"There has never been a minimally invasive, combination drug-device therapy like Optilume
before, leading to a highly disruptive, paradigm change for physicians treating urethral strictures
and BPH [benign prostatic hyperplasia]," Laborie CEO Mike Frazzette said in a statement.
Laborie struck an exclusive licensing deal with Urotronic for the stricture product in January
2022.
"They paid $165 million for an exclusive global license to that," said Urotronic CEO Dave Perry.
Laborie also previously invested $15 million in Urotronic in 2020 when the companies forged a
partnership agreement.
In 2018 Urotronic raised $20 million in a financing round where investors included Mayo Clinic.
Minneapolis-based Piper Sandler Cos. served as financial adviser to Urotronic in the Laborie
deal. Perry said the acquisition expected to close in the fourth quarter.
Founded in 2014, Urotronic has 21 employees.
In connection with the deal, Laborie is also making a $5 million investment in GIE Medical, a
Urotronic spinoff that is developing a drug-coated balloon for use in the gastrointestinal tract.
The Medical Alley network has tracked 15 deals so far this year where a Minnesota health care or
medical company has been sold to an out-of-state entity. The largest of those was Abbott
Laboratories' $850 million acquisition of New Brighton-based Cardiovascular Systems Inc.
Frank Jaskulke, Medical Alley's vice president of innovation, said that the Urotronic deal stands
out because debt costs and market uncertainty have been reducing the volume of transactions
during 2023.
"The device M&A has been down this year," said Jaskulke.
Christopher Barry, a previous CEO of Urotronic, pleaded guilty in 2017 to stealing trade secrets
from a previous employer and bringing that confidential information to Urotronic. The company
said it had no knowledge of Barry's actions and demanded his resignation after discovering what
he had done.
Burl Gilyard is the Star Tribune's medtech reporter.
burl.gilyard@startribune.com 612-673-4756 mplsgilyard
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Plymouth Community Center holds
Sensory-Friendly Sundays
September 6, 2023
The City of Plymouth is set to hold Sensory-Friendly Sundays at the Plymouth Community
Center, 14800 34th Ave. N. Sensory-Friendly Sundays are set for 8:30-10:30 a.m. Oct. 1, Nov. 19
and Dec. 3.
Participants may enjoy amenities inside both the gymnasium and Kids Ultimate Backyard
Experience (K.U.B.E.) indoor playground at the Community Center with reduced attendance,
dimmed lights and no overhead music to reduce overstimulation.
The gym will include blocks for creative play, dedicated sensory bins, tumbling equipment and
sports equipment. Noise cancelling headphones will also be available for use.
The cost is $5 for residents and $7 for nonresidents. Preregistration is required for participants
ages 3 and older (no cost or registration required for parents/guardians, or for children ages 2
and younger). To preregister, visit plymouthmn.gov/specialevents.
For more information, call the Plymouth Parks and Recreation Department at 763-509-5200.
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Plymouth plant swap set for Monday,
Sept. 11
September 6, 2023
The City of Plymouth will host a free plant swap 4-6 p.m. Monday, Sept. 11, at the Plymouth
Maintenance Facility, 14900 23rd Ave. N.
Participants are encouraged to bring perennials and swap them for new plants shared by
others. To get involved, place extra plants in pots and label them with their common names.
Seeds and plant wares – pots, tools, books and the like – are also good swap items.
Participants who attend the Plant Swap event should be on the lookout for jumping worms – an
invasive earthworm species that poses a threat to soil, plant roots and mulch. For details about
jumping worms, visit the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources website
at dnr.state.mn.us.
For more information, call City Forester Paul Buck at 763-509-5944.
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Plymouth seeks vendors for Nov. 18
artisan market
September 6, 2023
The city is seeking vendors for the new Plymouth Artisan Market set for 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Saturday, Nov. 18, at the Plymouth Community Center, 14800 34th Ave. N.
Local artists are invited to apply for a booth to display and sell original works. Vendors may
feature hand-crafted paintings, photography, sculptures, jewelry, pottery, clothing and
accessories, household items and more.
Applications for vendor booths are due Friday, Sept. 15. For more information or to download
an application form, visit plymouthmn.gov/artisanmarket.
For more information, contact the Parks and Recreation Department at 763-509-5200
or recreation@plymouthmn.gov.
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